Friends,My first quote of the week comes from Trump on Air Force One, on his way back from Beijing on Friday — telling David Sanger of The New York Times:“I had a total military victory. But the fake news, guys like you, write incorrectly. You’re a fake guy. We had a total military victory. I actual…
Three nonprofits associated with dark money megadonor and architect of the conservative Supreme Court supermajority Leonard Leo funneled more than $50 million into the world’s largest lay Catholic organization — whose donations, in turn, advanced anti-abortion and anti-LGBTQ+ causes, according to an…
Less than two years into his second term, a substantial portion of the Republican coalition is reported to be actively seeking a candidate who will take the party in a fundamentally different direction than Donald Trump — a significant splintering in what remains his dominant grip on GOP politics.Ac…
They may call themselves the “Pro-Life Party,” but the GOP certainly doesn’t act like it. They claim to be “Pro-” a lot of other things as well: family, faith, women, and above all else, children. In the Upside Down of Trumpworld, “Pro-” actually means “Anti-” every time, because they’re ultimatel…
President Donald Trump claimed during his recent “60 Minutes” interview, based on the federal indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center on fraud and money laundering charges, that the violent 2017 Unite the Right rally was “a total fake” funded by the extremist watchdog group “to make me look ba…
CNN’s Harry Enten analyzed the range of outcomes likely in November’s midterm elections, and he found that massive gain were within reach for the Democratic Party.The political landscape was convulsed by the mid-decade redistricting war kicked off by President Donald Trump in Texas, and last month’s…
And now, he’s paving the way for you and me and all taxpayers to foot the bill for the enemies of democracy.You know how the “president” filed that lawsuit in January seeking $10 billion in damages from the Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department for the purported damage inflicted by hi…
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) are leading the charge to eradicate state artificial intelligence laws that Silicon Valley entrepreneurs say are stifling, but there’s a problem: There’s still no federal AI law to replace local tough-on-AI measures.As Senate Commerce Comm…
President Donald Trump told reporters on Tuesday that he was “an hour away” from striking Iran when Middle East allies asked him to stop.Trump was speaking to press at the White House ballroom construction site when he started taking questions. He was asked about the reversed decision on Monday to s…
Friends,On Saturday, Trump took revenge on Louisiana senator Bill Cassidy for Cassidy’s vote five years ago to convict Trump, in his second impeachment, for instigating an attack on the U.S. Capitol.Cassidy thereby became the first GOP senator defeated by a Trump-endorsed candidate in a Republican p…